John Zaccaro

John Anthony Zaccaro is an American real estate developer. He is the widower of Geraldine Ferraro, former U.S. House of Representatives member from New York and 1984 Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee. He currently owns a real estate development company in Manhattan called P. Zaccaro & Company.

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Summary John ZaccaroJohn Anthony Zaccaro is an American real estate developer. He is the widower of Geraldine Ferraro, former U.S. House of Representatives member from New York and 1984 Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee. His reluctance to make public his tax returns, and his finances, became a major issue in that 1984 campaign. He was acquitted of all charges at trial in 1986, but the couple’s finances again became a damaging issue during Ferraro’s 1992 Senate Democratic campaign as she entered the front-runner for the nomination. He has been involved in every aspect of the real estate industry as a broker, developer, or principal or principal of his past clients, including Emigrant Savings Bank, New York University Savings Bank and New York City Housing Bank.

He currently owns a real estate development company in Manhattan called P.  Zaccaro & Company, which was founded by his father Philip Zaccaros in 1917. He also owns a private investment company in New Jersey called Zaccara Partners, which he co-founded with his brother, Peter Zaccari, in the early 1990s. He and Ferraro met in 1954 and married on July 16, 1960.